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Title:The Politics of Liberalizing Zambia's Maize Markets
Author:Pletcher, JamesISNI
Year:2000
Periodical:World Development
Volume:28
Issue:1
Period:January
Pages:129-142
Language:English
Geographic term:Zambia
Subjects:economic policy
marketing
maize
Agriculture, Natural Resources and the Environment
Economics and Trade
External link:https://doi.org/10.1016/S0305-750X(99)00120-5
Abstract:In 1991 Zambia embarked on a dual transition, that is, simultaneous political and economic liberalization. This paper first shows that the country suffers from many problems associated with dual transitions. Against this background, the paper analyses the process of maize market liberalization in Zambia. The central argument is that maize markets have been more quickly and fully liberalized than maize input markets because the perceived political risks of liberalizing input markets are greater than those of liberalizing maize markets, and because economic interest groups benefited from maize liberalization while similar interests benefited from continued government interventions in input markets. These findings imply that in order to understand the prospects for economic liberalization in new democracies both civil society and markets must be disaggregated. Bibliogr., note, sum.
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